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  Pedophilia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pedophilia (American English), pædophilia/paedophilia (Commonwealth English), or pedosexuality is the paraphilia of being sexually attracted primarily or exclusively to prepubescent children.
In most cases, however, pedophilia is used in a looser sense to describe anyone found to be sexually aroused by children and is often diagnosed solely in the presence of fantasies or sexual urges on the subject's part—it need not involve sexual acts with children.
Some researchers have suggested a distinction between pedophilia and nepiophilia—that is, the attraction to very young children in the age range of 0-3, because the difference between these two preferences seems quite large.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pedophilia   (2419 words)

  
 PF03 - Pedophilia (02/06/2003)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Pedophile is a human being who suffers life long by impossibility to give the children his/her love in a full extent, if he/she will not to harm a child or to be exposed to the criminal prosecution.
Etologists (scientists who explore evolution of animal and human behaviour) brought hypothesis, that such a typical erotic activity as a kiss is originally not a sexual activity, but it comes from very ancient times, when the mothers have feed their children from mouth to mouth.
Pedophilia or pedophile orientation is not identical with "making sex" with children, to be a pedophile isnot identical with doing sexual practices with children.
pf03.wz.cz /en/text/opf.htm   (3565 words)

  
 priestly pedophilia
Pedophilia (the sexual abuse of a prepubescent child) among priests is extremely rare, affecting only 0.3 percent of the entire population of clergy.
Pedophilia is a particular type of compulsive sexual disorder in which an adult (man or woman) abuses prepubescent children.
Although exclusive pedophilia (adult attraction to prepubescent children) is an extreme and rare phenomenon, one third of homosexual men are attracted to teenage boys (Jenkins, Priests and Pedophilia).
www.catholicherald.com /eddesk/02ed/10myths.htm   (2150 words)

  
 Pedophilia - free-definition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Note that pedophilia can be diagnosed solely in the presence of fantasies or sexual urges on the subject's part — it need not involve sexual acts with children.
Pedophilia is not a legal category or term, and although the acts pedophiles desire to carry out are criminal in most jurisdictions, they are not legally referred to as pedophilia.
The Human Face of Pedophilia also advocates legalization of adult-child sex and proposes a set of guidelines to govern such relationships [1] (http://hfp.puellula.org).
www.free-definition.com /Pedophilia.html   (1130 words)

  
 Italy
The Government generally respected the human rights of its citizens; although there were a few problems in some areas, the law and judiciary provided effective means of dealing with individual instances of abuse.
Roma immigrants, or the children of Roma immigrants, were concentrated on the fringes of urban areas in the central and southern parts of the country, living in camps characterized by poor housing, unhygienic sanitary conditions, limited employment prospects, inadequate educational facilities and the absence of a consistent police presence.
Faced with limited income and job opportunities, and suffering from harassment, some Roma turned to begging or petty crime, which generated repressive measures by police and some judicial authorities.
www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2003/27844.htm   (7582 words)

  
 Italy
The Government generally respected the human rights of its citizens; although there were some problems, the law and judiciary provide effective means of dealing with individual instances of abuse.
The U.N. Human Rights Committee, the treaty monitoring body for the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, recommended in 1998 that this 5-day period be reduced and that all detainees have access to legal advice immediately upon arrest.
Faced with limited income and job opportunities, and suffering from harassment, some Roma turned to begging or petty crime, which reinforced negative societal attitudes and generated repressive measures by police and some judicial authorities.
www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2002/18372.htm   (8804 words)

  
 Harmful to Minors excerpt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Human infants who are not held "fail to thrive," and if they survive, they may become social misfits.
Sociobiology, in particular the kind that compares humans with other beasts, is of even more limited utility when explaining children's sexual development.
In other words, human touch acquires meaning in a culture, and primary among those meanings is whether or not a given touch, response, or even body part is sexual.
www.upress.umn.edu /HarmfultoMinors.html   (762 words)

  
 Human Trafficking Worldwide
It was the deadliest case of human smuggling in the United States in fifteen years, illustrating in grim detail how a journey that begins in hope can end in horror.
As I mentioned earlier, human smuggling is now big business, and ICE can hit these organizations where it hurts – at the bottom line – by seizing their profits and putting them out of business.
In U.S. embassies throughout the world, we have a network of ICE attaches, who are working with their counterparts in foreign law enforcement agencies to better coordinate investigations and communication, and to follow the money and seize the millions of dollars in profits flowing to these organizations.
www.2500aday.com /2500_mainindex/humantrfrpt.html   (2127 words)

  
 10 Myths about Preistly Pedophilia
Pedophilia (the sexual abuse of a prepubescent child) among priests is extremely rare, affecting only 0.3% of the entire population of clergy.
While the total number of sexual abusers in the priesthood is much higher than those guilty of pedophilia, it still amounts to less than 2 percent — comparable to the rate among married men (Jenkins, Pedophiles and Priests).
This flies in the face of the aforementioned statistic that married men are just as likely to abuse children as celibate priests (Jenkins, Pedophilia and Priests).
www.catholiceducation.org /articles/facts/fm0011.html   (2155 words)

  
 Pedophilia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Note that pedophilia can be diagnosed solely in the presence of fantasies or sexual urges on the subject's part - it need not involve sexual acts with children.
These terms are sometimes used in contrast with pedophilia; however pedophilia is often used to describe both ephebophilia and attraction to younger children.
The Human Face of Pedophilia also advocates legalization of adult-child sex and proposes a set of guidelines to govern such relationships.
www.yotor.com /wiki/en/pe/Pedophilia.htm   (1169 words)

  
 Pedophilia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
A psychiatric diagnosis of pedophilia merely indicates one's desires; not all pedophiles act on their urges and actually commit child sexual abuse.
Such disparities highlight how uncertain the study of pedophilia is, but even the higher figure belies the popular notion that if a pedophile is allowed to go free, he will almost always molest again.
But the authors concluded that for most victims the effects of the abuse "were neither pervasive nor typically intense" and that "men reacted much less negatively than women." In fact, 42% of the men who were asked (vs. 16% of the women) looked back on their sexual experience with an adult as positive.
www.ipce.info /library_3/files/cloud_ped_time.htm   (2828 words)

  
 SELF-JUSTIFICATION IN HUMAN RELATIONS:
Not only is the human search for gratification a matter of interpretation; not only does it involve the molding of brutish impulses; people judge themselves by whether they have the occasion or the capacity to comport themselves affectively in a human way.
Einstein placed in humanity’s hands the power to exterminate itself, and so was responsible for an ultimate turning-point in human history.
Even though the human collective is composed of individuals, it displays aggregate phenomena which transcend individual choices and override their importance.
www.henryflynt.org /human_relations/selfjustification.html   (10853 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - 7 Things You Should Know About the Pope
It is possible that the next conclave might take longer than the one- and two-day conclaves in 1978 (the year of three popes and two conclaves), if only so the cardinals can put a face to the names they've read.
However, the issues that are being raised by groups within the church calling for greater participation, such as Voice of the Faithful and Voice of the Ordained, are important theological issues, especially concerning the branch of theology known as ecclesiology: the study of the nature and function of the church.
The next pope will likely be faced with something of a backlash to the centralization under John Paul II.
encarta.msn.com /encnet/features/Guides/?Article=pope   (2576 words)

  
 The Pedophilia/Pedophile Education Web Site Mirror
Pedophilia is a sexual-orientation, like heterosexuality, homosexuality, bisexuality, etc. Clinically put, a pedophile is an adult person who desires sex with children.
Because of the social stigma attached to adult-child sex, most all pedophiles hide what they are from the world-and with good reason, since they face imprisonment for their views.
It is possible pedophilia is genetic, or it may simply be learned behavior, but in any case, I and others like me should not be attacked or flamed for our beliefs.
lege.cz /win.en/archiv/pedo1.htm   (4050 words)

  
 Pedophilia Crisis in the Roman Catholic Church   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Second, a frequent drip of revelations about priestly pedophilia would only undermine the image of the Church, and institutional image is of vital concern to religionists.
That our children are of this culture, are therefore especially susceptible to harm from pedophilia, and thus should be all the more untouchable all too readily eludes their calculations.
But the Church's very ideas about human nature, about volition in the area of sexuality, about confession and absolution, about sexual health and morality, about it's own place in culture and with respect to civil law, and about the internal culture it itself fosters.
home.comcast.net /~walkswithastick/catholiccrisis.html   (3345 words)

  
 Albania
The Constitution provides for an independent judiciary; however, the judiciary remained hampered by a lack of resources and inexperienced and untrained personnel and was subject to political pressure, intimidation, and widespread corruption that weakened its ability to function independently and efficiently.
The Law on Fundamental Human Rights and Freedoms provides for freedom of speech and of the press and the media is active and unrestrained; however, there are serious, fundamental problems with the blatant use of the media for political purposes.
The Albanian Helsinki Committee, the Albanian Human Rights Group, the Albanian Center for Human Rights, the Society for Democratic Culture, the Albanian Media Institute, SOROS Foundation, the Albanian Institute for Contemporary Studies, the Women's Center, and Women in Development were among the most active domestic NGO's involved in addressing human rights problems.
www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2001/eur/8219.htm   (10407 words)

  
 Puellula — A Celebration of the Splendor of Little Girls   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
To use this word, however, I must stress that there is a major difference between a pedophile (amarso), or childlover, and a child molester.
Unfortunately, society often blurs this distinction and does not attempt to understand that pedophilia, or childlove, is not an action but a sexual orientation.
The second purpose of this site, therefore, is to demonstrate this difference and to explain my ideal of consensual childlove.
hfp.puellula.org   (182 words)

  
 Hundred Years of Pedophilia
In all the places where the practice of pedophilia receded, it was the influence of Christianism — practically alone — that freed the children from this awful rule.
The movement for the induction to pedophilia starts when Sigmund Freud creates an erotic parody of the first years of human life, a version that is very easily absorbed by the culture of the century.
Feminist organizations help to disarm children against pedophiles and to arm them against the family, divulging the monstrous theory of an Argentine psychiatrist according to which at least one in every four girls is raped by her own father.
www.olavodecarvalho.org /traducoes/pedophilia.htm   (928 words)

  
 Ask Opinion Guy: Morality Issues Page 1
Pedophilia is one branch of the many sexual disorders that we call Paraphilia."Pedo" is a greek prefix indicating "child", "phile" derived from latin, greek and french means having a strong love or preference for.
Pedophilia involves reoccurring sexual arousal and desires or fantasies involving sexual impulses toward a pre-adolescent child or children.
Those with regressed pedophilia are typically heterosexual married males and most likely to sexually molest 8 or 9 year old female children.
ca.geocities.com /opinion_guy/MoralityIssues/MI1.html   (2570 words)

  
 Notes on Pedophelia: Catholic Church in Serious Crisis
Pedophilia exists in a small minority of the population.
The face of the Church is pock-marked with wounds from savage attacks from all sides.
Second, the Protestantization of the Church may be the answer to some, but they will have to face pedophilia all over again, as Protestants, and insist on celibacy for their clergy, since Protestant pedophile clergy are married.
www.cjd.org /paper/pedophil.html   (4907 words)

  
 Mistrial - The Capturing the Friedmans DVD sheds new light on the case. By Harvey A. Silverglate and Carl Takei   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Reclining on a couch with his legs spread and his face hidden by shadows, the unnamed young man makes allegations that are even more bizarre and outlandish than those made in the movie.
This meant that he could face up to 25 years in prison if convicted.
Faced with the prospect of a trial before a judge and community who had apparently concluded his guilt before the fact, what rational person would not plead guilty in order to avoid the maximum sentence of 100 years in prison?
slate.msn.com /id/2096296   (1386 words)

  
 CNN.com - 66 face child sex ring trial - Mar 4, 2005
Three people face life imprisonment if convicted of raping minors under age 15 and of active participation in the prostitution ring, AP said.
Nineteen face a maximum of either seven years or ten years in prison for sexual abuse and corrupting minors.
Prosecutors allege that children aged 6 months to 14 years old were raped by their parents or offered to other adults in exchange for small amounts of money or parcels of food, AP reported.
www.cnn.com /2005/WORLD/europe/03/04/france.trial   (876 words)

  
 Psychiatric Association Debates Lifting Pedophilia Taboo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
But whether pedophilia should be judged "normal and healthy" is as much a moral question as a scientific one, according to Nicolosi.
Gender identity disorder and pedophilia are 2 different things - the gender thing is when a man feels like he's a woman trapped in a mans body or vice versa.
Again, if pedophilia is no longer considered by the medical community to be a mental disorder, it will be harder to keep the sickos locked up for long periods of time.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/926810/posts   (4378 words)

  
 Victims of Violence
They maintain that pedophilia (or as NAMBLA calls it, inter-generational sex) is a sexual orientation or preference just like homosexuality or heterosexuality.
He was also the author of several books and papers dealing with human sexuality, including that of children.
It was formed in 1962 by seven couples during a lecture on human sexuality.
www.victimsofviolence.on.ca /research322.html   (406 words)

  
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It has been said that a face is the map of the person, telling us much about their temperament, background, age, family, genetic roots, wisdom, joys, and sufferings.
This society so intoxicated in secular humanism, New Age religion, hedonism, materialism, modernism, feminism, sodomy, and all manner of foul evils showers us with its many faces of sin on a daily basis, yet its smiling, mocking faces are mere masks to the perdition being sold.
The face is the object which calls forth love, indifference, or hatred -- not for its particular beauty or homeliness, but because of that which it represents.
www.dailycatholic.org /issue/05Feb/feb9gab.htm   (2206 words)

  
 Priest Child Abuse: Pedophilia or Pederasty?
Of course, those are the same options all human beings face, but these guys are much clearer about it.
As your wife noted, true pedophilia (attraction to pre-pubescent children) is extremely rare.
It was discouraging to find out that as late as the early 90’s, a priest with pedophilia tendencies and others who had been involved sexually with teenagers were allowed to continue in the ministry.
www.geocities.com /seapadre_1999/pedophiliapederasty.html   (651 words)

  
 NEW ARTICLE The Roots of Pedophilia
Unable to face the dismal failure that he is, the narcissist partially withdraws from reality.
To soothe and salve the pain of disillusionment, he administers to his aching soul a mixture of lies, distortions, half-truths and outlandish interpretations of events around him.
When impoverished, I am altruism embodied - the best of friends, the most caring of tutors, a benevolent guide, a lover of humanity, and a fierce fighter against narcissism, sadism, and abuse in all their myriad forms.
www.suite101.com /discussion.cfm/npd/113762/1053726   (5377 words)

  
 Prophet Of Doom:  Source Material   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Third, attributing rape, incest, pedophilia, deceit, thievery, kidnapping, ransom, the slave trade, torture, and terrorist raids to a religious prophet in a land subjected to his doctrine, is unimaginable if not true.
It is humiliating to the human intellect to think that this mediocre literature has been the subject of innumerable commentaries, and that millions of men are still wasting time in absorbing it.” I have also struggled with this thought.
Abu Zaid sought to refute the charges of apostasy, but in the face of death threats and relentless public harassment he fled Cairo for Holland, calling the affair: “a macabre farce.” Sheikh Youssef Badri, the cleric whose preaching inspired much of the opposition to Zaid, was ecstatic.
www.prophetofdoom.net /sm.html   (20060 words)

  
 HRC Strongly Condemns Recess Appointment of William Pryor to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit
He is on record using mean-spirited rhetoric that compares gay relationships with incest and pedophilia and perpetuates hurtful myths.
He also argues in the brief that sodomy is a chosen behavior unworthy of constitutional protection, and fails to recognize GLBT individuals as people worthy of the same constitutional rights and protections that other Americans take for granted.
The Human Rights Campaign is the largest national lesbian and gay political organization with members throughout the country.
www.sodomylaws.org /usa/usnews092.htm   (641 words)

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